I firmly believe MacOS and linux should be considered as different as windows and linux from the point of view of platform support. If the only time your software runs on MacOS is during development, you're probably wasting your time supporting another platform, and your developers are never developing against the target. "It's POSIX so it's the same" is a lie in basically all the ways that matter, you'll have a much easier time with a VM (by which I mean developing in the VM, not building a whole new VM/container in your development loop)

(And I don't think I've ever seen a dev macOS setup that could be called clean, but it's been a long time since I've interacted with that, so maybe the situation has gotten better since then)